{"id":252483,"date":"2020-04-17T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252483"},"modified":"2020-04-17T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:46:10","slug":"dominguez-denies-hes-the-reason-for-pernias-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/17\/dominguez-denies-hes-the-reason-for-pernias-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominguez denies he\u2019s the reason for Pernia&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251734\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20180108-ph-JAL1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251734\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20180108-ph-JAL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20180108-ph-JAL1.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20180108-ph-JAL1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20180108-ph-JAL1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20180108-ph-JAL1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III at the New Executive Building in Malaca\u00f1ang on January 8, 2018. TOTO LOZANO\/Presidential Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has decried allegations naming him as the reason behind the resignation of Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI can\u2019t imagine why,\u201d he told journalists Friday in a Viber message when asked for his reaction on talks regarding this.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pernia, who was also the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) director general, attributed his decision \u201cpartly to personal reasons and partly to differences in development philosophy with a few of my fellow Cabinet members.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for making him a part of his Cabinet \u201cfor the past nearly four years\u201d and the NEDA officials and employees who helped him in \u201ccrafting and pursuing the goals of the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 and the Ambisyon Natin 2040.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI leave NEDA knowing that we have initiated and implemented meaningful changes that will help the country overcome these challenging times and on to a higher growth trajectory,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pernia was replaced by Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua, who has been appointed by President Duterte as NEDA Acting Secretary.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dominguez said Chua, who led the Department of Finance\u2019s (DOF) tax reform campaign, will not have a concurrent position at the NEDA and DOF.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has decried allegations naming him as the reason behind the resignation of Socioeconomic Planning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":251734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252484,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252483\/revisions\/252484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}